Stories & Poems - page 15

• dark 25
• eerie 38
• grounded 135
• intimacy 68
• kith-kin 69
• melancholy 73
• poetry 43
• solitude 126
• speculative 103
• tension 71
• wit 81

I gave some old stories a little love and polish. Find them here. They are my personal favourites.

Piscans Interruptus

2 minute read

Captain Nestor breathed a sigh of relief as his yacht left the hanger bay of the Vindictus.

Torture

less than 1 minute read

Reflected in the steel above, I watch the red line widen as he traces the scalpel from my navel to between my breasts.

Smoke

2 minute read

Peter wanted a smoke.

The Toy

less than 1 minute read

a haiku poem

Wendell’s Solution

2 minute read

‘How the Hell did he get up there?

Caught

less than 1 minute read

I waited impatiently for my computer to shut down.

Sierra Enigma

6 minute read

It’s never been easy working in the same place where Mom died.

The Last Days of the Marcy Bell

2 minute read

Officially, the Marcy Bell was a salvage rig, licensed for Canadian and international waters but not American.

Good Boy, Jake

less than 1 minute read

Rod in hand, I went to the lake

Justin Takes Control

6 minute read

Agent Justin Cayse left the bordello from the rear, having escaped his captor.

Dead Inside

less than 1 minute read

Eunice sat on the edge of her daughter’s bed and stared out the window, the rustling of leaves muted by glass.

Random

less than 1 minute read

“Goddam it,” Rita O’Neill said as she let the curtains slide back into place.